Futurama - "Neutopia" - Talkback [6/23]
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ruggedwarrior_love
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"I found a loophole in the mortgage. If we pay it, we get to keep the building."
Oh, Hermes.
Leela's outfit...holy crap.
Oh, Hermes.
Leela's outfit...holy crap.
mrwhizeguy
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"Are we at the fair yet mommy?!" Lol.
LOLLOBSTER
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Better than the XMas episode.
But still absolutely awful. I don't think there was a single joke in the entire first two acts that wasn't staler than year-old bread, and the third act was... well, just unpleasant,
But still absolutely awful. I don't think there was a single joke in the entire first two acts that wasn't staler than year-old bread, and the third act was... well, just unpleasant,
usa4worldcup2010
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Yeah but thinking about that joke dosen't make sense if you remember that Fry actually learned how to fly the Planet Express ship as shown in "Time Keeps On Slippin" so he shouldn't need autopilot or for eveyrthing on autopilot to correct him. something I noticed that did kind of bug me.
You know I can't be the only one sick of the sometimes rather sexist writing of this show, espiecally on these "boys vs girls" episode that always go out of their way to show how much better women are then men, becase the male characters are idiotic pigs. There was "Amazon Women In The Mood", "Bend-Her" and even the Femista plot of "Into The Wild Green Yonder". I get the idea they're playing on basic gender tropes but it dosen't really seem all too balanced. And I was worried that this episode was going to do that, and the parts with the men demeaning the women into the photo shoot and stealing Leela's airplane idea and the switch genders at the end sort of did that, but thankfully the middle took the "battle of the sexes approach" and actually evened it out.
I guess this is another sort of Star Trek idea of an alien creature curious of human like behavior uses at least part of the crew to some twisted design but the rock monster wanting to see who was better through his trials did actually seem fair. Asking the women obvious girly questions (I've actually expierenced something similar on vacation actually) and proving the guys were better liars (though isn't the sexist thing that women can hide lies more then guys can?). and then the whole treking through the desert where both teams were about to die and the leaders using Bender as their last resource but literally screwing the other over. And the twist I didn't see coming actually making everyone netural and having them get along fine except for missing sex. That actually felt rather refreshing and didn't have stupidly insulting jokes. Didn't care as I said for the whole gender switch at the end since still had the whole "guys have more problems with them then women do" issue but at least that had the Hermes/Labarbada plotline continuing strong. (And also way to go on making Labarbrada more likeable after how much she ditched hermes in the DTVs).
In truth I didn't most of the jokes too laugh out loud funny. Besides Professor commenting the team on doing a good job on delivering a letter to him, the old cat lady wanting to see episodes of the Office, "your manwhich!" and Scruffy still being a woman at the end (it would be funny if they acutally kept that. But even Futurama dosen't seem to have stuff like that as part of their continuity even though they're suppose to have a more continuity fueled storyline then say the Simpsons). The gender bashing loses points but it's still a solid enough episode otherwise.
You know I can't be the only one sick of the sometimes rather sexist writing of this show, espiecally on these "boys vs girls" episode that always go out of their way to show how much better women are then men, becase the male characters are idiotic pigs. There was "Amazon Women In The Mood", "Bend-Her" and even the Femista plot of "Into The Wild Green Yonder". I get the idea they're playing on basic gender tropes but it dosen't really seem all too balanced. And I was worried that this episode was going to do that, and the parts with the men demeaning the women into the photo shoot and stealing Leela's airplane idea and the switch genders at the end sort of did that, but thankfully the middle took the "battle of the sexes approach" and actually evened it out.
I guess this is another sort of Star Trek idea of an alien creature curious of human like behavior uses at least part of the crew to some twisted design but the rock monster wanting to see who was better through his trials did actually seem fair. Asking the women obvious girly questions (I've actually expierenced something similar on vacation actually) and proving the guys were better liars (though isn't the sexist thing that women can hide lies more then guys can?). and then the whole treking through the desert where both teams were about to die and the leaders using Bender as their last resource but literally screwing the other over. And the twist I didn't see coming actually making everyone netural and having them get along fine except for missing sex. That actually felt rather refreshing and didn't have stupidly insulting jokes. Didn't care as I said for the whole gender switch at the end since still had the whole "guys have more problems with them then women do" issue but at least that had the Hermes/Labarbada plotline continuing strong. (And also way to go on making Labarbrada more likeable after how much she ditched hermes in the DTVs).
In truth I didn't most of the jokes too laugh out loud funny. Besides Professor commenting the team on doing a good job on delivering a letter to him, the old cat lady wanting to see episodes of the Office, "your manwhich!" and Scruffy still being a woman at the end (it would be funny if they acutally kept that. But even Futurama dosen't seem to have stuff like that as part of their continuity even though they're suppose to have a more continuity fueled storyline then say the Simpsons). The gender bashing loses points but it's still a solid enough episode otherwise.
I thought it could've been better....The gender stereotypes were really tired,but I did like seeing the gender-reversed crew (female Fry looks like his mom),as well as gender reversed Leela,Amy,and LaBarbara turning the tables on the formerly male employees for making them pose for a calendar earlier in the episode.....
I liked....
Farnsworth having the crew deliver a letter (that turns out to be for him)...
Hermes finding a "loophole" in their mortgage...if they pay it,they get to keep the building....His relationship with LaBarbara seems much more stable here as well...
Zapp's reaction to female Fry was funny as well...
Scruffy misses out on the back -to- normal gender switch (which will probably be forgotten in the next episode)
I liked....
Farnsworth having the crew deliver a letter (that turns out to be for him)...
Hermes finding a "loophole" in their mortgage...if they pay it,they get to keep the building....His relationship with LaBarbara seems much more stable here as well...
Zapp's reaction to female Fry was funny as well...
Scruffy misses out on the back -to- normal gender switch (which will probably be forgotten in the next episode)
I really liked the episode. Good Star Treky stuff and some good gags, like weighing down the Planet Express Ship with tons of unnecessary crap to make it an airliner and all the reactions to the gender switching. Scruffy becoming a girl but keeping his mustache.
A couple of things irked me. It seemed a little bit like a later, not-to-good Simpsons with the abruptness of its "Hey, let's do some crazy crap!" plot and the way the original plot was just, literally, a vehicle to get to the second one. There also wasn't enough time spent gender switched, I'm sure they could have gotten more jokes out of that. Finally, the "show four episodes of The Office" is the kind of too topical and current joke I don't like in Futurama, I like when they skewer pop culture but they don't need jokes that sound like they came from last night's Leno monologue.
A couple of things irked me. It seemed a little bit like a later, not-to-good Simpsons with the abruptness of its "Hey, let's do some crazy crap!" plot and the way the original plot was just, literally, a vehicle to get to the second one. There also wasn't enough time spent gender switched, I'm sure they could have gotten more jokes out of that. Finally, the "show four episodes of The Office" is the kind of too topical and current joke I don't like in Futurama, I like when they skewer pop culture but they don't need jokes that sound like they came from last night's Leno monologue.
Infinite Integral
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I thought gender humor on this show had run its course even before this episode aired, first with "Amazon Women in the Mood" and then "Bend Her" (nice reference, by the way).
I've noticed every time they "tackle" gender differences on this show (or on any show with a gender-issues episode), both sexes suddenly revert to their stereotypical extremes for no good reason. They didn't avoid that cliche this time, but the wittiness was still sharp enough for me to forgive that. I thought it was good.
This episode wasn't spectacular but it was still somewhat enjoyable. It was funny how the Professor had the Planet Express crew deliver a letter to him. I laughed at Hermes figuring out a loop hole to stopping the Planet Express foreclosure is to actually pay the mortgage. I enjoyed all the characters reactions towards being turned genderless by the giant rock thing mostly Fry's. Hermes really shouldn't have told everyone that their contracts have a clause about coming to work naked if requested since it caused him and all the other guys to pose for a pin-up calendar when they were stuck as women. To bad Scruffy went back to normal the next episode since it would have been kind of funny.